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Sirach 18:30 (WEB)
Don’t go after your lusts. Restrain your appetites.

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§1809Article 7 · The VirtuesRead at vatican.va
“Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: "Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites."” — Catechism footnote: Sir 18:30.

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions X.31Book X
“I heard another voice of Thine, “Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xviii. 30.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 119
“For thus we are able to keep the word of God, if we “go not after our evil lusts,” so that they attain unto the evils desired; but rather curb them with the spirit which lusteth against the flesh, that they may not drag us away, seduced and overthrown, through evil ways.” — editor's note: Ecclus. xviii. 30.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 41
“To fulfill this: “Go not after thy lusts.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xviii. 30.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 66
“Wherefore one exhorteth us, saying, “Walk not in the desires of thy soul” ( Ecclus. xviii. 30 ); for so wilt thou destroy it since it leadeth away from the path leading to virtue; just as, on the contrary, “he that hateth it in this world, shall save it.”” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 70
““Go not,” it is said, “after thy lusts, and refrain thyself from thine appetites.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xviii. 30.
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Leo the Great, Letters Letter 101
“For the catholic, and especially the Lord’s priest, must not only be entangled in no error, but also be corrupted by no covetousness; for, as says the Holy Scripture, “Go not after thy lusts, and decline from thy desire.”” — editor's note: Ecclesiasticus xviii. 30. The application of the description “Holy Scripture” to an Apocryphal book will not escape notice.
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Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 15
“If thou givest her desires to thy soul, thou wilt be a joy to thine enemies;” and farther on; “Wine and women make even wise men to fall away.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xviii. 30, 31.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor II.10Book II
“Moreover, the Pædagogue warns us most distinctly: “Go not after thy lusts, and abstain from thine appetites; for wine and women will remove the wise; and he that cleaves to harlots will become more daring.” — editor's note: Ecclus. xviii. 30.
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